15 STRANGE Vehicles Powered by STEAM

For a long time, the world ran on steam. Steam-powered engines ruled the world, and engineers created some truly amazing pieces of machinery. Join us for today’s video, as we countdown the top 15 most powerful steam vehicles ever designed.
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[@Lucius1958]

You neglected to mention the Stanley speed car, which set the record broken by the Inspiration, back in 1906: the Stanley was the first car to exceed 120 mph. According to some accounts, they tried again the following year: the driver, Fred Marriott, claimed that he had reached 197 mph, and was still apparently accelerating, when the car hit a bump, became airborne, and crashed. Miraculously, Marriott survived the disaster.

[@Andre_Thomasson]

if that car became airborne then the speed claim might actually be close to reality,

[@Kimdino1]

Regarding the comments on the K Class subs. They did NOT see the end of steam engined submarines. In fact most of todays large submarines are steam powered. The resurgence started in the 1950s when the coil/oil burners were replaced by nuclear reactors. With very few exceptions, nuclear power plants are no more than glorified steam plants.

[@JusticeAlways]

Steam driven nuclear-powered.👍

[@Karagianis]

​@@JusticeAlways Steam powered, nuclear fired.

[@ringstar3316]

You…really didn’t research any of these…

[@Nonya-uj2gv]

Was the script generated by AI? Seems to be the AI 'hallucination' effect observed elsewhere, like with the legal papers submitted citing make-believe cases, or citing cases that were not about what the AI written papers claimed? This feels like some lazy person had an AI generate a script, but didn't bother to do any fact-checking on it at all.

[@averitiamiku]

Of course not this is an ai talking and not a real human, almost like it's a view grabber

[@BLACKOMAMBO]

What impress me thw most with the centiped locomotive is the use of a standard diesel electric shape, thats unusual for a steam train

[@nomdefamille4807]

save that as I and others have pointed out this is a crock of shit, and from your screen name I suspect that you were well aware. There are a handful of steam powered locos that have a passing resemblance to the early road diesels, the UP/GE pair, the C&O M1, the N&W Jawn Henry to name a few but the Baldwin looks that way because it simply is a diesel. You will note that the git who produced this has spliced in some footage of what I take to be a german/austrian steam locomotive drivetrain.

[@thomaserixton4662]

The centipede was actually a diesel locomotive based on an F unit that was made from two car bodies that was powered by diesel electric engines

[@wizlish]

The Centipede pictured here was a Baldwin Locomotive Works design, and had nothing to do with Bessemer or steam power (or with EMD F-unit carbodies). The truly interesting locomotive was the original one using the articulated underframe -- the 6000hp Essl design of the late Thirties which used individual modular gensets (first V12s, the V8s) to power individual axles in the chassis. This was rebuilt for the Seaboard Air Line (to give a single-unit diesel with comparable performance to a good 2-6-6-4) and then made as two-unit 6000hp passenger engines to take over from T1s as the "GG1 equivalents" for trains west of Harrisburg...

[@thomaserixton4662]

Thanks for the info, I don't know all that much about the centipedes but I knew the narrator didn't have his info correct that's for sure.

[@allangibson8494]

There were multiple x-10-x locomotives. None were particularly successful for long runs but were useful where high tractive effort and acceleration is required - but electric motors do it better.

[@usafltg1]

The Centipede is a diesel and is a Pen flyer F unit body locomotive

[@eternaldonut3128]

Why does everything powered by steam look so cool?

[@offline7620]

steam helicopter - but it's not April Fool's Day - interesting what people will believe

[@piercebales9546]

There was a steam motorcycle in the window of the Sutro baths museum in San Francisco. It burned down in 1967. You had a boiler between your legs, wild.

[@rayfridley6649]

Ever hear of steam elevator? These were in use in the late 19th century. Steam elevators had a steam engine usually in a different part of the building that was linked by a train of apparats to transmit power to the elevator's machinery, usually consisting of a drum on which wrapped the hoisting cables that moved the elevator car up and down. The elevator driver would use control ropes in the car to raise, lower, or stop the car. The steam engine had to be constantly running for the elevator to work. It took about a half an hour to fire up the steam engine in the morning in order to have service. A modern electric elevator's motor stops when the car is at the desired floor, much more efficient.

[@darylcheshire1618]

In Melbourne, some very old buildings had water driven elevators, I’m not sure how they operated, I think water flowed into a piston and ran until the 1970s. They were given an exemption to run during times of water restrictions. Perhaps they had electric motors and used water instead of hydraulic oil. They were slow and there was a height limitation.

[@Dallen9]

??? The fowler Ghost was a fire brick Steam locomotive. the issue with the Fowler Ghost was the fact if the boiler ever ran low on water there was no way to drop the fire preventing a crown sheet failure and a boiler explosion. Their contribution is literally they're the first locomotives for the London Underground soon replaced by regular traditional tank engines until Electric locomotives were able to take their place.

[@railstofails1396]

Fowlers ghost was a 1 of 1 locomotive, the plan was to make a locomotive to work underground in the British tunnels. It turned out as a poor steamer and one incident nearly caused it to explode in a station when the water ran out. This being die to its boiler design. As it not only had a firebox for conventional use, it had firebricks lining the boiler to retain heat to keep creating steam after the fire was dropped for traveling in the underground the issue was that despite the fire being out the bricks cant be removed from the boiler, thus it nearly exploded from lack of water and continued heating from the bricks. After that it was deemed a failure and taken out of service, with its builder allegedly denying the engine ever existing. Am interesting locomotive plagued with bad luck and poor design…

[@MauriceEscargot]

Why do they call it a streamlined design? The thing is a brick.

[@SteamLance]

Well the Fowler's ghost story is completely wrong, it was an experimental brick fired loco to reduce smoke in the underground tunnels of London. It failed though, and was promptly scrapped. No idea what the loco is you lot are on about that is sleek and whatever, but sounds like a US loco rather than a UK one

[@Arkay315]

Fowler's ghost was actually a failure at a steam locomotive that could run subways without killing everyone with smoke inhalation, what happened is that it's fire box collapsed. And fowler's ghost wasn't streamlined, it did not pull express trains. And the centapede was a locomotive run by an internal combustion engine, not a steam engine. Also the drive system of jay leno's fire truck is run on internal combuation, the only thing steam powered was the water pump.

[@garymiller5937]

Some truly strange vehicles but you go with the best available technology at the time. I admire their imagination. 😊

[@topfives]

We agree!

[@zaildarkuldeep8451]

Very nice good great job. Thanks.

[@ar-bo6pd]

The black pearl is insane!

[@kzstv5667]

Very informative video 📹 I really appreciate your efforts 👌

[@robertdragoff6909]

Considering what’s going on in cars today, we might be driving steam powered cars and trucks again, real soon!

[@c0ldyloxproductions324]

Wouldn’t be apposed to this

[@MobileMasterr]

That’s never gonna happen😂

[@c0ldyloxproductions324]

@@MobileMasterr and people said theyd never try to lock the country down, or ban gas cars yet here we are 2020 happened and california is looking to ban gas cars soooo, ive stopped saying something is never gonna happen

[@Identifyasaconspiracytheorist]

Imagine if the same amount of effort put into combustion engines was spent developing electric steam engines

[@c0ldyloxproductions324]

@@Identifyasaconspiracytheorist imagine if people would actually realize c02 and nitrogen are good for plant life and how much more environmental damage happens while mining for all the resources for electric cars and batteries

[@WisePlagueis]

3:54 None of the Michelin Railcars were steam-powered, not even the 1932 prototype. A mere look at the exhausts and it's obvious this is a diesel engine (Junkers). Where did you get your info ?

[@MahaRainbowStarseedAvatar1008X]

Josh where can I find the background music of this video ? sounds very nice !

[@verilyheld]

Re the Steam Man= some few years ago, there was a steampunk book made about the imaginary adventures of Boilerplate, a steam robot.

[@andremiller1566]

15 mph is very close to what my 97 Grand Prix gt gets.

[@FuelFire]

The DG8 Steam Wagon is basically a Shay but as a car. Insane.

[@justincollins8266]

The Bessemer centipede was BASICALLY A PROTOTYPE FOR THE BIG BOY

[@lc79tourer26]

Nice video, steam propulsion is still alive and well in subs however, nuclear power is basically just steam, usually a turbine, with a nuclear boiler so is the motive force in nuclear powered ships, subs and power stations.

[@christofferniemonen8872]

most of human history is just boiling water- and improving it

[@-Master_Of_Disaster]

Wow that was a lot of wrong or incorrect information in this video. Check your facts please.

[@The_Goldenhammer.]

I feel you. I was seething with anger whan he talked about the Baldwin Centipede.

[@petercooper2387]

One example being the Sentinel DG8 which had a duplex (twin cylinder) double acting engine and not 3 cylinders.

[@caledonianrailway1233]

Can we get a list of corrections?

[@jamesgraham4586]

Where the hell did you get this info? some of these Vehicles were never powered by steam for god sake!

[@schautamatic]

The Black Pearl, huh? “What are you doin’?” “No, what ARRRGH ya doin’?” 😄😄

[@sm6moj30]

You had a shot from the Soviet WW2 k-class diesel sub in the film!

[@haroldluck9899]

Very interesting

[@The_Goldenhammer.]

19:59 That is the Baldwin Centipede. A diesel locomotive with the wheel configuration of a Big Boy (4,8,8,4). And this was build around the time diesels took over the american railnet. Alco tried to make diesels. And Balwind ignored it until they no longer could. The Centipede was one of their attemps to compete with EMD and GE. And it was a fail. Mainly because Baldwin did not know what they where doing.

[@davidmackey344]

Most of the images in this video have nothing to do with the subject matter. The Beyer-Garrett segment being one exception.

[@petercooper2387]

The Sentinel DG8 had a duplex (twin cylinder) double acting engine mounted in line with the chassis. It's successor, the Sentinel 'S' had a four cylinder single acting engine mounted across the chassis.

[@unvaxxeddoomerlife6788]

I honestly thought the thumbnail was some photoshopped clickbait not a real creation, amazing.

[@cleitondecarvalho431]

Insane motorcycle.

[@nomdefamille4807]

Save that the Michelines were not steam powered, you can see the radiator grille and the external silencers ffs!

[@Cosmic76Guardian]

Aww man, you changed the thumbnail, lol. Because that yellow lowrider car looks very futuristic. 😅

[@danielobrien1571]

Are you a lady with extremely long hair? I admire woman that keep theirs that way, describe it all please?

[@topfives]

I know!

[@hstrinzel]

"An astounding record breaking speed of 148 MPH?" For such a gigantically HUGE engineering piece? Well that proves once and for all that Steam is VERY, VERY inefficient for such purposes.

[@kentworch]

Maybe steam could make a resurgence in the 21st century with electric steem powered cars with the emergence of heat pumps and lithium batteries at some point in the 2050s to 2100s

[@fatalinsomn1a182]

I wish I could like this twice.

[@csdestonia6984]

7:08 Soviet Volga GAZ24

[@quinn446]

Amazing video keep up the amazing work!

[@topfives]

Thanks!

[@quinn446]

@@topfivesyour welcome thanks for the amazing videos

[@barcleyt]

The Sentinel DG8 had a flat four double acting engine not a vertical 3

[@PreservedSteamUK]

WHEN ON EARTH HAS A STANDARD GAUGE GARRATT BEEN USED ON THE WELSH RAILWAYS!??!? ARE YOU MAD?!

[@thekaxmax]

I've worked on a Beyer-Garret restoration.

[@justincollins8266]

The 4-8-8-4 wheel arrangement is correct

[@kimeldiin1930]

That is a leading link front forks...the sprung link is in front of the pivot

[@dedenkodir8793]

👍🙂 MANTAP' TARMAC, Engine Steem

[@garryej]

Toronto's subway uses pneumatic tires.

[@ChrisBullington]

It is a shame Bill Bessler's steam-powered airplane receives but a mention while an imaginary steam helicopter makes the list. There is another big misconception in this video: What Walter Christie made for fire departments was a conversion unit for horse-drawn steam pumpers they already possessed. It actually used an internal combustion engine to drive the front wheels.

[@KartikPatel-nt4ff]

😅😮😅😅😅😅😅well information good show 😅

[@datprawn4850]

The Inspiration is also the fastest Steam-Powered Vehicle in the World, beating the Mallard's 124 MPH in the 30s.

[@TVPiles]

The Black Pearl is built to European specifications, wherein anything not faster than 6 Km/h does not require a registration or driver's license, where I suspect it was more to avoid the homologation as street worthy vehicle that made them opt for that low speed.

[@only.2.shark.]

Me looking at the thumbnail The first word that appears in my mind: steambike

[@Auldpharte]

Beyer-Garrets had two sets of pistons and driving wheels, but only one boiler. The driving units were laden with water tanks, with the rear unit, next to the cab, carrying the coal bunker. Just check your facts before you write your scripts.

[@muhammadrifqi9287]

Not sure why but i've a feeling that the narrator in this video somehow same voice like the person on Simple History 🤣

[@Remibiggestfan]

Mate, The Centipede Locomotive Is Diesel. Not Steam

[@paulschramm1144]

I seen four steam power motorcycle

[@billparker244]

I don't understand the issues with the British K class subs. My ship in the US Navy today is propelled by two GTM's that only have two speeds that rotate the shafts. The actual speed with which the ship moves is governed only by the pitch of the blades. So the shafts could be spinning and the ship would go nowhere with the blades of the screws at zero pitch. In fact, you could replace the diesel power plants in my ship with steam engines right now and it would work in the same exact way. The officers of the ship would never know the difference during maneuvering.

[@billparker244]

Modern and advanced US subs are steam powered now too. If you removed all electricity from the sub, the shaft is still directly rotated by the nuclear reactor/boiler. Can't tell you about the Seawolf or Virginia class though.

[@supernintenjoe974]

Did he seriously just call the whistle a steam horn? 1:29

[@victorrowley7494]

I wonder why you haven’t included the first steam powered aircraft, which flew in England in 1894. See a post by ‘History Debunked’ titled ‘How a steam-powered aeroplane took to the air in England in 1894; long before the Wright brothers’

[@emmanuelsemons6830]

0:54 the front looks like a train

[@frankkoester257]

And yes Thomas you're right the centipede was a diesel electric, and the so-called steam helicopter was a bunch of BS

[@yotamamit9945]

Y0TAM AMIT❤5

[@FunAngelo2005]

If diesel power was never discovered

[@bidhan.chandrabhattacharje585]

How peculiar ...!...was the evolution of..... technology..!!!

[@geppetto425]

Those are gyrocopters, not helicopters

[@BLACKOMAMBO]

Hey thats kurnagets voice

[@autoshotty]

@ 6:12 I'm a standing on a corner in Winslow, Arizona And such a fine sight to see It's a girl, my Lord, in a flatbed Ford Slowin' down to take a look at me.

[@davidbrandenburg8029]

frankly steam is scary, I have been burned by both gas and steam and steam is by far the more painful kind of burn!.

[@michaeldesilvio221]

Could a steam engine be used to recharge the battery on a EV steam hybrid vehicle?

[@allangibson8494]

Yes, been done on locomotives (about 90 years ago).

[@paulschramm1144]

Case tractor made a world biggest steam power tractor

[@CrossOfBayonne]

Maybe one day steam traction could make a comeback if oil and gasoline goes kaput

[@mishaladara]

Without the oil company's this world would have been beautiful

[@ajid3846]

Mantaaf ok

[@densondirosa4497]

The steam motorcycle pictured at the first of the video is actually powered by compressed air, However a British gentleman built a coal fired steam motorcycle named ‘Jenny’, a Garrett locomotive has a central cab & boiler. Just a couple of inaccuracies….

[@wizlish]

An American named Sylvester Roper built a quite successful steam bicycle... and the locomotive type is spelled 'Garratt' after its inventor; it deserves its own detailed video which should include the early Tasmanian express locomotives and the astounding Algerian engines of the mid-Thirties.

[@peje1524]

I miss the sound of Now ai is talking to much

[@georgecastiblanco2978]

Katsuhiro otomo' s Worlds.

[@MarquisDeSang]

Remember what they took from us.

[@alo1236546]

the speed is not fast enough to keep bike balance

[@jhangirawan343]

if we move for better climate then steem power better

[@user-ck5wi3qj3f]

Es mejor la levitación que eso. Tino de Reynosa.

[@michaeleckhard763]

The Black Pearl is not strampowered, its powered by compressed Air.

[@mkli3459]

Very big part of romanticizing steam engines is how they sound like but now the only thing to hear about was the speaking of the speaker 🤨

[@burnbabyburn-od5sy]

I BOUGHT INTO THIS UNTILL THE STEAM MAN LOLOLOL TAKE YOUR STEAM AND SHOVE IT

[@PreservedSteamUK]

Uhh... you got pretty much everything wrong about Henry Fowler's Ghost. If you continue to do videos on steam traction consult an expert or don't bloody bother because your coverage of this locomotive was abysmal. 1. The nickname is "Fowler's Ghost", it never had a name as it was an experimental engine. 2. The engine was not at all streamlined, the only reason it was "streamlined" is for aesthetic purposes and that was common of the period when locomotives were made. 3. The locomotive was not "enclosed", It probably has boiler cladding and lagging like pretty much every steam locomotive ever and it had an open cab so you're not gonna pull a fast one on me, lots of locomotives from that period were open-cab because driver comfort wasn't considered for most locomotives. 4. WHERE ON EARTH IS THIS COW-CATCHER?!? OUR LOCOMOTIVES RARELY EMPLOYED THE USE OF A COW-CATCHER! IF YOU'RE MISTAKING THE COUPLING CHAIN FOR A COW CATCHER GO TO SPECSAVERS PLEASE FOR YOUR HEALTH'S SAKE! 5. How does this locomotive look Ghastly? It more resembles The Crampton Locomotives that were popular of the time, the nickname has nothing to do with the appearance. 6.This "Stream-Lining" nonsense was never on the locomotive (refer to point 2) and the concept of stream-lining wouldn't become used on steam locomotives for another 70+ years. 7. EXPRESS PASSENGER TRAINS?!?!? WHAT!??!??! IT WAS DESIGNED SO THEY WOULDN'T HAVE SMOKE COMING OUT OF THE CHIMNEY TO PREVENT EVERYONE ON THE LONDON UNDERGROUND FROM CHOKING TO DEATH! HENCE THE NAME "FOWLER'S GHOST" 8. There have been no reports on passengers finding it's appearance unsettling... where are you finding this information? you're making it all up aren't you! 9. YOU THINK FOWLERS GHOST, A VICTORIAN 2-4-0 LOCOMOTIVE DESIGNED FOR THE UNDERGROUND THAT WAS MADE TO EXPERIMENT WITH HEAT TRANSFER METHODS COULD LAST UNTIL THE 1960'S WHERE 3/4 CYLINDER EXPRESS LOCOMOTIVES WERE THE MAINSTAYS OF EXPRESS PASSENGER WORKINGS, THIS LOCO COULDN'T GO TOE-TO-TOE WITH A GREAT WESTERN CASTLE LET ALONE A GREAT WESTERN AUTO-TANK! IT HAD ISSUES STEAMING AND NEARLY BLEW UP ON IT'S TRIALS BEFORE BEING BOUGHT AND EVENTUALLY SCRAPPED BEFORE IT COULD BECOME A CONVENTIONAL WORKING ENGINE/ 10. SURVIVING EXAMPLE S?!?!?! THERE WAS ONE BUILT AND THAT'S HOW IT WAS. 11. THAT PHOTOGRAPH IS A THOMAS THE TANK ENGINE FAN CREATION OF THE GHOST NOT THE REAL THING! WE ONLY HAD ONE PHOTO TO GO FROM AND YOU'VE BEEN USING OTHER STOCK FOOTAGE OF STEAM ENGINES AND I FEEL RATHER INSULTED YOU WOULD ASOCCIATE THE GREAT CENTRAL RAILWAY WITH THIS MESS OF A VIDEO! YOU SHOULDN'T BE MAKING VIDEOS WITH THIS POOR ACCURACY FOR INFORMATION, YOU SHOULD QUIT KZbin BECAUSE THIS IS APPAULING!

[@Arkay315]

You are completely correct, this video is just misinformation.

[@terrier484]

steam locomotives.... how strange indeed.....what were they thinking??

[@AEKarnes]

It would be nice if you asked to use my footage.

[@FUREXE]

The narrator of this video sounds oddly familiar.... im totally not incognito either...

[@darthgbc363]

Modern nuclear submarines are technically steam powered.

[@allangibson8494]

Actually they are hybrids with electric drives to the propellers.

[@metemarchaoficial]

where is the sound of the vehicles?? 🤦🏻🤦🏻

[@mechamax7919]

10:31 Fowler's ghost vid reappears! XD

[@soonersciencenerd383]

STEAM PUNK baby!!!!

[@Sebdamememan]

There are soooo many things wrong with this video, its like you didn't even try , I'm going to try and correct one of them, here I go, Fowler's Ghost was designed BY JOHN FOWLER , but BUILT BY AND IN THE WORKS OF ROBERT STEPHENSONS AND COMPANY, the name fowler's ghost does not come from its appearance, it comes from the fact that the engine was such a failure it was a disgrace to his designer JOHN FOWLER, who after the scrapping of the loco in 1895 denied the existence of said machine, the locomotive in no way shape or form is streamlined, nor futuristic, it was a very common design for the era, it didn't have a cow catcher, it had things called rail guards which protected the wheels, it didn't have a promising speed nor performance because the locomotive only traveled 7.5 miles on its entire 4 to 5 years of life, the locomotive never worked on passenger services, as after its first trials the loco was withdrawn from service to try and fix the flaws that it had, its short life wasn't because of the advent of diesel locos, since the loco was built in the 1890s , it was because the loco leaked steam from every nut, bolt and joint. Next time please proof read your investigations, as 2 other locos in this list are not even powered by steam, but rather diesel

[@wizlish]

It was called 'Fowler's Ghost' because the steam exhaust was blown down into the cistern (to prevent steam exhaust in the tunnels, and to recover the latent heat in the steam -- the latter working altogether too well!) and hence the locomotive had no more audible exhaust than an African class 25. Since the mechanical work was made with typical British precision there was little noise, compared with other contemporary traction, when the engine moved.

[@user-ln9cq9vl6q]

Narator terlalu berisik, saya tidak bisa mendengar suara mesinnya. Anda berbicara terus menerus tanpa henti.

[@luharabdulla555]

Iglis cment is hindi tranletion plis👋

[@BocoProductions189]

I swear this one dude narrates like 80 of these fucking thinks

[@charlesmishak8434]

And Jay Leno does not own the fire truck

[@ryanpenalosa3148]

No.15 might burn your body..

[@Imintune...]

Steam punk bike